Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Social Movements Confront GlobalizationBloomsbury Academic, 27.10.2000 - 268 Seiten A new movement of 'anti-globalists', in Time Magazine's words (24 April 2000), now 'oppose corporate dominion over the planet's poor and disfranchised'. Naming the Enemy is the first systematic documentation of this international resistance to transnational corporations and globalization which has so recently burst into the public gaze with the street protests in Seattle, Washington, London and Prague. |
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... mobilizing existing formal democratic channels of protest , seeking national legislation , mounting judicial challenges , mobilizing international agencies , boycotting and protesting . In response to structural adjustment , people's ...
... mobilize people to demand standards or concessions from corporations themselves . Movements demanding ' corporate responsibility ' , ' voluntary codes of conduct ' or ' standard setting ' have , as David Vogel predicted in 1974 ...
... mobilize in churches , corporate retail outlets , plantations , busy streets and payphones . They involve 1960s peaceniks , seasoned politicians , NGO leaders and development workers , landless poor and alienated youth . None of these ...
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Contestation and Reform | 45 |
Globalization from Below | 83 |
Delinking Relocalization Sovereignty | 111 |
Urheberrecht | |
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